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List:       lua-l
Subject:    Re: What about using linenoise?
From:       David Burgess <dabsoft () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-29 22:35:30
Message-ID: 4BB12B32.1040402 () gmail ! com
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THanks for the info about linenoise. I have been using in
my current project and it work well. Its solves the problem
of porting to small machines.

DB

On 26/3/2010 3:05 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>> Would it make sense to eventually use linenoise instead of readline in Lua?
>
> luaconf already has macros for this.
> To use linenoise, I expect these should work:
>
> #if defined(LUA_USE_LINENOISE)
> #include "linenoise.h"
> #define lua_readline(L,b,p)	((void)L, ((b)=linenoise(p)) != NULL)
> #define lua_saveline(L,idx) \
> 	if (lua_strlen(L,idx)>  0)  /* non-empty line? */ \
> 	  linenoiseHistoryAdd(lua_tostring(L, idx));  /* add it to history */
> #define lua_freeline(L,b)	((void)L, free(b))
> #endif
>
> Or you can just use this emulation of readline:
>
> #define readline	linenoise
> #define add_history	linenoiseHistoryAdd
>
> Of course, you need to add linenoise.o to your project.
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